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Re: How to avoid wrong answers in simple arithmetic expressions.
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Jan 20, 2013 6:30 AM
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"Bruno Luong" <b.luong@fogale.findmycountry> wrote in message <kdghtg$2gl$1@newscl01ah.mathworks.com>...
> OK if you don't like negative power I give you an example of positive power that contradict what you said:
> [The IEEE 754 format description on Wikipedia was a bit confusing - all those negative powers of 2! It really boils down to - if a number can be represented as a sum of powers of 2]
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> Which is wrong statement. Why, because:
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> 2^100 can be represents by IEEE
> (2^100 + 1) cannot.
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> Both are sum of power of 2.
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> Bruno
All right, suppose I say all integers between -2^52 and 2^52 can be represented exactly - I did say "within some range" without specifying what that range was. But I get your point, which I presume is that - not all integers from realmin to realmax can be exactly represented - a fact that can easily be forgotten in haste.
Best Regards.
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